Poloniex is to crypto what Robinhood is to stocks 

Heard about it but haven't participated in any...

What are the advantages of doing a BCO compared to an ICO/IEO/DCO?

Will look into Aavegotchi more, it looks nice.

Let's summarize what has been reported previously:

1- High level of centralization;
2- Unfair wealth distribution (72% pre-mined with ~90% of it to the team);
3- Price manipulation (WP: "price capped at 0,4$");
4- Reported fake users accounts;
5- Potential lies about user activity (officially reporting 40,000 daily active users but explorer show rewards are given to ~2,000/day);
6- Questionable business ethic: Avoid questions, arrogant, lack of transparency + ban "too curious" users from chats;
7- Unclear WP (Only a vague commercial version, not very technical):
      - Fork of Pivx without the privacy features (zerocoin protocol) --> Basically fork of Bitcoin;
      - Browser itself fork of chromium open source code;
      - Unclear mechanisms (Terms of team sales of max 10M/y not clearly defined anywhere, economic projections very basic and unclear, burning unclear);
      - 0 fees policy may expose them to network vampirizing attacks;
      - Overall long term supply model unclear (no tx fees + decreasing supply + capped max supply + burning = deflationary?)
8- PRIVACY:
No mention about privacy in the WP or anywhere.
This plus some other clues indicate they are potentially recording individual browser history through activity.
What they expect to do with user data isn't clear.

What is clear is that these guys are planning to "press the lemon" as much as they possibly can.
They are not really in a logic of community-driven solution but a full for-profit Business Model.
They treat their NBX coin as a if it was a security (US investors to be careful with this).

Always Invest at your own risks and after thorough researches to make responsible investment decisions.

Agi

1- Are the trades on exchanges (from a buyer to a seller) made through the blockchain or is it virtual (exchanges only have one main wallet and virtually credit/debit the different accounts) ?

I am confused because for as I see it, transactions made on exchanges are usually credited instantly and the fees taken seem to only represent the exchange fees (not the miners fees) but at the same time, each user have several personal addresses to send the different coins.

If it is virtual, then volumes calculated for all transactions would require to be adjusted in order to take into account exchanges + blockchain.

2- If my first assumption is correct, is coimarketcap giving volumes adjusted (volumes on all exchanges + volumes through the blockchain) ?

I am asking because I am looking for the volume data to analyse the market (starting with btc) and found different sources but they all provide different numbers which is confusing:

https://coinmetrics.io/data-downloads/   
https://www.blockchain.com/fr/charts

Thanks

Since nobody know who is satoshi yet...

As mentioned in the thread, Heitler describe Bitcoin Ltd's activity on his linkedin profile starting as follow:
"The original concept for bitcoin was to create a more efficient payment system for the web [..]"

He did register the company "Bitcoin Ltd" along with 2 other people but in February 2009 (bitcoin.com in Jan 08):

https://companycheck.co.uk/company/06831070/BITCOIN-LTD/companies-house-data

My point is: Is it pure coincidence that this guy registered bitcoin.com + a company called bitcoin Ltd, officially for the same exact purpose and at the exact same period considering that nobody knew what btc will be back then ? After he and his team failed to raise fundings, he closed the company and moved on to something else, at the same time period than S.N. actually did.

I rose the question because I usually don't really believe in coincidences, and this one is quite particular...

kopipe: Does the article give the identity of the first owners of the domain? (I do not have a membership for WSJ and do not plan to).

kingpin4321: I do not consider btc just as a financial tool to eventually make money but mostly as a technological breakthrough.
It is way more fascinating for being what it is than for his intrinsic/market value...
Previous attempts as Hcash (1997) or bitgold (1998) using PoW are also precursors to what is btc and probably have strongly influenced its creation.

If you believe it doesn't matters to know who are the great scientists that have shaped this world, this very own opinion is up to you.
 

Could it be possible that Heitler Jesse is Satoshi Nakamoto since he is the one who registered bitcoin.com, one year before the release of the "Bitcoin- A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" whitepaper (3/01/2009) and 8 months before the creation of the bitcoin.org domain (August 2008) ? Satoshi mentioned he started to work on bitcoin's code mid-2007.


img: ownership of bitcoin.com registered in january 2008

H.J is from the UK and the first block mined includes the following text "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" (headline of the Times : UK newspaper). Moreover, the written english used by Satoshi in his posts and writtings is said to have british structure/words. Heitler studied computer science in Yalle University from which he graduated in 1997 and has been working with code since then. He has a very entreprenarial profile.

Besides, Satoshi's contribution and involvement in bitcoin seems to stop in mid-2010 and according to HJ's linkedin profile:



In April 2011, Nakamoto communicated with a bitcoin contributor, saying that he had "moved on to other things" (Wikipedia)

What is the real relationship between Heitler and bitcoin, if no coincidence?

Best,

Agiravax